The SUSE operating system must audit all uses of the sudoers file and all files in the /etc/sudoers.d/ directory.

Severity	Group ID	Group Title	Version	Rule ID	Date	STIG Version
medium	V-234913	SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015	SLES-15-030140	SV-234913r958412_rule	2025-02-27	2

Description
Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged access commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

Description

Reconstruction of harmful events or forensic analysis is not possible if audit records do not contain enough information. At a minimum, the organization must audit the full-text recording of privileged access commands. The organization must maintain audit trails in sufficient detail to reconstruct events to determine the cause and impact of compromise. Satisfies: SRG-OS-000037-GPOS-00015, SRG-OS-000042-GPOS-00020, SRG-OS-000392-GPOS-00172, SRG-OS-000462-GPOS-00206, SRG-OS-000471-GPOS-00215

ℹ️ Check
Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access the "/etc/sudoers" file and files in the "/etc/sudoers.d/" directory. Check that the file and directory is being audited by performing the following command: > sudo auditctl -l \| grep -w '/etc/sudoers' -w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k privileged-actions -w /etc/sudoers.d -p wa -k privileged-actions If the commands do not return output that match the examples, this is a finding. Notes: The "-k" allows for specifying an arbitrary identifier. The string following "-k" does not need to match the example output above.

ℹ️ Check

Verify the operating system generates audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access the "/etc/sudoers" file and files in the "/etc/sudoers.d/" directory. Check that the file and directory is being audited by performing the following command: > sudo auditctl -l | grep -w '/etc/sudoers' -w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k privileged-actions -w /etc/sudoers.d -p wa -k privileged-actions If the commands do not return output that match the examples, this is a finding. Notes: The "-k" allows for specifying an arbitrary identifier. The string following "-k" does not need to match the example output above.

✔️ Fix
Configure the SUSE operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access the "/etc/sudoers" file and files in the "/etc/sudoers.d/" directory. Add or update the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k privileged-actions -w /etc/sudoers.d -p wa -k privileged-actions To reload the rules file, restart the audit daemon > sudo systemctl restart auditd.service or issue the following command: > sudo augenrules --load

✔️ Fix

Configure the SUSE operating system to generate audit records when successful/unsuccessful attempts to access the "/etc/sudoers" file and files in the "/etc/sudoers.d/" directory. Add or update the following rule in "/etc/audit/rules.d/audit.rules": -w /etc/sudoers -p wa -k privileged-actions -w /etc/sudoers.d -p wa -k privileged-actions To reload the rules file, restart the audit daemon > sudo systemctl restart auditd.service or issue the following command: > sudo augenrules --load